AgResearch News
NZ Grasslands Association 70th Annual Conference
The NZ Grasslands Association is the largest membership-based body in New Zealand that specialises in transferring pastoral technology from the laboratory to the farm.
Leading edge pastoral farming to be discussed at Grasslands Conference
The 70th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Grassland Association will be held next week (14 - 16 October) in Blenheim.
Voluntary severances as CRI moves to improve its financial performance and reposition its science
AgResearch has entered the second phase of its Internal Review Process, with a call for voluntary severances amongst its scientific staff as the Institute works to improve its financial performance and reposition its scientific focus.
Launch of AgResearch Professorial Chair in Systems Thinking and Practice
On Friday 26 September AgResearch and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) will co-host an event to launch the AgResearch Chair in Systems Thinking and Practice. AgResearch is co-funding this Chair at The University of Queensland and Professor Kambiz Maani has recently been appointed to this position.
Professorial Fellowship marks revival of plant breeding education
Dr Warren Williams has been appointed as the AgResearch Professorial Fellow in Plant Breeding at Massey University, primarily to support the new post-graduate qualification in plant breeding offered by Massey and Lincoln Universities.
AgResearch announces world-first technology to detect fake designer garments
Take two identical garments - both attributed to the same designer. It is impossible to distinguish between the two articles. The same fabric was used, the same colour, the same pattern. Even the label looks the same... However one is real - the other one is a fake. Which one is which?
AgResearch scientists have runway show at Fashion Week
AgResearch scientists will today reveal some of the world-first fabrics they have invented which will feature in their runway show on Friday (September 19th) as part of Air New Zealand Fashion Week.
AgResearch to put its flame resistant fabric to the test - on a person
For the first time ever AgResearch will put its revolutionary stab and flame resistant fabric it developed about a year ago, to the test on a person, when a blow torch is applied to the vest of the material worn by a male model today.